Thursday 13 March 2014

Thomas Couser is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Disability Studies Program at Hofstra University.

He is the author of American Autobiography: The Prophetic Mode (1979), Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography (1989), Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (1997), Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (2004), and Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing (2009).

His latest book, Memoir: An Introduction, was published by Oxford University Press in 2011.

He is currently writing a book about contemporary American 'patriography' (memoirs of fathers by sons and daughters) and a memoir of his own father.